derekperkins's comments

On: K1 Buys MariaDB

[derekperkins]

I very much appreciate your deep knowledge of MySQL, and willingness to share amidst the sea of postgres fans. There's a reason both are popular and widely used.

On: Stripe Data vs. Open‐Source Alternatives: A MRR Ex...

[derekperkins]

Lago is mocking the very idea of OSS. You can't even issue a refund self hosted.

On: Show HN: WAL Implementation in Golang

[derekperkins]

Change and use slog with the zap adapter

On: Three ways to think about Go channels

[derekperkins]

Just an egg please

On: After 6 years, I'm over GraphQL

[derekperkins]

Huge fans of Buf Connect. We run vanilla gRPC servers on the backend and have a typed experience through to the frontend

On: Scaling to Count Billions

[derekperkins]

It also has materialized views built in so you don't have to run dbt manually

On: Scaling to Count Billions

[derekperkins]

This. We're doing billions of daily usage aggregations in MySQL with generally less than 5s delay

On: Scaling to Count Billions

[derekperkins]

Avoid Chargebee at all costs. I've never made an architectural decision I regretted more.

On: A New Sweetener Has Joined the Ranks of Aspartame ...

[derekperkins]

My thoughts exactly

On: Meta does everything OpenAI should be

[derekperkins]

What a fantastic article